The First Post

4/1/2025

How did we get here?

This has been in the works for a while. Probably since December? Lots of design changes through tinkering around. It’s been on and off, but it’s here. It’s finally here.

I know this website isn’t anything complicated, but I didn’t understand anything about web development until this. I know I could’ve hosted a website with WordPress with a pretty template and drag and drop what I want, but what’s the fun in that? I wanted to make something that is truly mine.

This really has nothing to do with what I am currently studying. This is something that I have been doing in my free time. I am in my last spring semester for Cybersecurity in community college right now, and I plan on continuing my education through Western Governors University with Computer Science.

Now, I understand that a Computer Science degree has had a negative connotation recently. Graduates with Computer Science degrees are oversaturated, AI, outsourcing for workers, it’s a bad market. However, I feel that it can only improve my skill set if I want to continue in cybersecurity, or if I want to branch off into other tech jobs, that degree would enable me to do so. I would hate to do an IT degree, and later down the line regret that I didn’t try to challenge myself and ultimately sell myself short of something else I might enjoy.

I know for certain that I like computers, but I still do not necessarily know what I want to do. I like the idea of cybersecurity, cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, devops… and for most of those roles, having experience in software development helps. What if I like software development? I have no clue. I can’t lie that I am curious about topics in Computer Science. I go online and people have discussions about frameworks, compilers, object-orientation… what are you talking about?

Community college was the best accident ever. I had no clue what I was doing, blindly chose cybersecurity (or rather my dad did after a quick search of the college), and it miraculously worked out. If there is one thing that has been truly lacking in my education, it is that I have not learned a lick of coding. Last semester, I was doing Harvard’s CS50, and that was a great learning experience, although once I got to algorithms, I had to indefinitely put it on halt because I was also studying for Network+ at that time. It wasn’t actually a part of my education.

I know that I like making things. I make videos once in a blue moon, I make music (you’re not hearing any of it), and I made this website. Developer type jobs might be something I enjoy. If I can’t get a job in it, I can still fall back into IT. And if I can’t get a job in IT, then I’ll put the fries in the bag. And if I can’t put the fries in the bag, there might be a problem.

Hopefully this website gets stuff added on and this isn’t just a one time thing. I think it will be something I'll keep going back to every now and then. I could add back-end functionality when I learn that, such as the ability to make an account and sign in, a comment section to posts, and a post maker for my account so I don’t have to manually add the tags that I want.

The resume portion of this website might completely change within a few months. Enjoy how this looks while it lasts, because it can very much change sooner or later. As of now, this is all I got.

From P.